Or "Government by Popular Opinion and Talk Show Hosts"?
Let's look at two definitions. Is that too difficult? Show this to Obama and anyone who tells us we are a "democracy" please. Thank you:
DEMOCRACY, n. [Gr. People, and to possess, to govern.] Government by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation. Such was the government of Athens.
REPUB'LIC, n. [L. respublica; res and publica; public affairs.]
1. A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person. Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics.2. Common interest; the public. [Not in use.]Republic of letters, the collective body of learned men.
